Key Quotes

Question 1

3,2 Richard

Divinity / hubris / no resolute action

Answer 1

Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm off from an anointed king; the breath of wordly men cannot depose the devoutly elected by the lord

Question 2

4,1 Richard

Metaphor for the downfall of Richard and successful of Bolingbroke

Power shifts from Richard to B

Answer 2

That bucket down and full of tears am I, drinking my griefs while you mount up on high

Question 3

3,2 Richard

Hubris/ power / divinity

Ambiguous because this is the same scene he dwells upon fate

Answer 3

Am I not king?

Question 4

4,1 Richard

Tragic loss / ironic as hie excessive belief in divinity has been corrupted / although he is suffering he remains magnificence through speech

Answer 4

“My crown I am, but still my griefs are mine. You may my glories and my state depose. But not my griefs; still am I king of those”

Question 5

1,4 Richard

Tragic flaw / suffering of England / going to Ireland to fund wars

Answer 5

We are inforced to farm our royal realm; the revenue whereof shall furnish us for our affairs in hand

Question 6

3,2 Richard

Arrives back from Ireland/ he dwells/ no resolute action / inevitable

Answer 6

“For gods sake let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings”

Question 7

2,1 York

Tragic mistake / he stole Henry’s inheritance / rules of inheritance

Answer 7

Did not the one deserve to have an heir?

Question 8

Richard 3,3

Tragic fall/ loss / mythological biblical reference / descent from high status / inevitable

Answer 8

“Down, down I come, like glist’ring phaeton… in the base court? Base court where kings grown base”

Question 9

Gaunt 2,1

Biblical imagery about England/ greatness / highlights loss

Answer 9

“This royal throne of kings…Demi paradise”

Question 10

Richard 3,2

Inevitable fate / dwells / death

Answer 10

“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, of epitaphs… write sorrow on the bosom of the earth””

Question 11

Gaunt 2,1

England greatness / Richards inept treatment of England

Answer 11

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England”

Question 12

Richard 5,5

Soliloquy/ pitty/ isolation / change of fortune/

Answer 12

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world

Question 13

York 2,1

Richards Mistake / suffering / foreboding / fate / Richard doesn’t listen to this

Answer 13

“If you do wrongfully seize Herefords rights … you pluck a 1000 dangers on your head”

Question 14

Gaunt 1,2

Divinity/ can’t avenge his brothers death / treason if so

Answer 14

For I may never lift an angry arm against his minister

Question 15

Richard 4,1

Anaphora / repetition / highlights loss / Sufferinf

Answer 15

With my own tears I wash away my balm

With my own hand I give away my crown

Question 16

1,4

Bolingbroke bond with common people

Answer 16

“How he did seem to dub into their hearts with humble and familiar Courtesy

Question 17

Richard 2,1

Tragic mistake / against rules of inheritance

Answer 17

“We seize into our hands his plate his good, his money and his lands